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Global Account-Based Marketing Leader

Zendesk Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$148,000-$222,000 per year

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Description

Join Zendesk, a company that powers exceptional service for every person on the planet, as a strategic, hands-on marketing leader to build the global framework and programs that help Zendesk engage priority accounts and industries,and create measurable pipeline impact.

You will turn account, buying-group, industry, and intent insights into relevant marketing experiences that help Sales start better conversations, progress opportunities, and grow Zendesk’s presence in strategic markets.

What you’ll be doing

  • Build and evolve Zendesk’s global account-based experience (ABX) operating model across 1:1 named-account, 1:few cohort, and scaled programs.
  • Create repeatable playbooks, workflows, and templates that enable regional teams to activate the right account and industry motions for their markets.
  • Lead paid media strategy for priority-account and cohort programs.
  • Develop global industry plays and campaign kits.
  • Partner with Regional Marketing, Sales, Product Marketing, Marketing Operations, and Sales Operations to translate account and intent signals into coordinated programs and timely Sales action.
  • Establish and review performance measures across target-account and contact reach, engagement, buying-group depth, high-intent activity, meetings, opportunity progression, and pipeline influence.
  • Build responsible, AI-enabled workflows for ad creative and campaign execution.
  • Test new audiences, creative approaches, channels, and account experiences.

What you bring to the role

  • Deep experience developing and executing B2B SaaS account-based marketing, industry marketing, or demand-generation programs that connect engagement to pipeline outcomes.
  • Strong strategic and analytical judgment, with the ability to turn account, industry, buying-group, and intent data into clear plans and practical next steps.
  • Experience planning paid media for named-account and cohort campaigns.
  • A collaborative approach to working across Sales, regional marketing, product marketing, creative, and marketing and sales operations teams.
  • Ability to create scalable campaign frameworks, sales plays, toolkits, and enablement that regional teams can adapt while maintaining a consistent global standard.
  • Comfort using AI-enabled tools to improve the speed and quality of marketing work.
  • Clear, concise communication skills and the ability to influence decisions across functions and levels.
  • A thoughtful bias for action: you test, learn, improve, and deliver high-quality work with care for the customer experience.

Basic Qualifications

  • 5+ years of B2B SaaS marketing experience, including 2+ years focused on account-based marketing, industry marketing, demand generation, or paid media.
  • Experience planning and activating 1:1, 1:few, or account-based paid media campaigns.
  • Experience using account-based advertising platforms, CRM, and marketing data or engagement-signal workflows to identify and engage priority accounts.
  • Demonstrated ability to connect marketing activity to measurable outcomes.
  • Experience using AI-enabled marketing or workflow tools responsibly.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with contact-level ABM advertising platforms such as Influ2.
  • Experience building global marketing frameworks, industry plays, campaign kits, and field enablement for regional teams across multiple markets.
  • Familiarity with CDP, intent, buying-group, and account-scoring workflows.
  • Experience developing scalable AI-assisted creative or campaign workflows.

The US annualized base salary range for this position is $148,000.00-$222,000.00. This position may also be eligible for bonus, benefits, or related incentives.

Skills

Required

  • account-based marketing
  • B2B SaaS marketing
  • demand generation
  • paid media
  • AI-enabled tools

Nice to have

  • contact-level ABM advertising platforms
  • global marketing frameworks
  • CDP
  • intent
  • buying-group
  • account-scoring workflows
  • scalable AI-assisted creative or campaign workflows

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://zendesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/zendesk/job/San-Francisco/ABX---Industry-Marketing-Manager_R35663

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